>> I am thinking of starting a training program for developers which teaches the actual skills required to be a good programmer, <<

I agree with all you said, and...

>> I use the "Mo-den enough" joke all the time at work... <<

Really? I wish I could say I did, Jeff, but no, I don't think so. That was just...

>> Did I mention "poor performing" code? <<

Umm...I think you did

That's kinda what I figured, but was wondering if it was something else...

>> I am getting the error 'string or binary data would be truncated'. <<

That's an error I've gotten when I had data exceeding the limit I had defined for a parameter I was passing.

The...

Hi, folks. I was reading this thread and spotted this statement which piqued my curiosity:

>> You should not allow application to run queries on tables or views. <<

Why not? I...